Pastural view showing mill and factory buildings along Frankford Creek in Comleyville. Includes the mill converted to a calico print works by Smith & Brother in 1827, the loom factory of "Mr. S. Steel," and the dye works of "Mr. Horrick", i.e., Jermiah Horrocks. In the foreground, two horse-drawn wagons and a man travel on Asylum Road. Horses and cows graze in fenced pasture lands along the road and dwellings are visible on a hillside rising up from the creek., Published with description titled "Calico Print Works at Comlyville" in The Lady's Book (1830), vol. 1, opp. p. 225. [LCP Per G 43, vol. 1], Attributed to William L. Breton., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 149, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9210.15 and in (1)7397.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator
Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date
[1830]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W78 [P.9210.15]
Landscape view showing the Flat Rock Dam. Dam constructed by the Schuylkill Navigation Company circa 1820 near Manayunk., Published in Port Folio (August 1827), frontispiece., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 263, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous portraits.
Creator
Swett, Moses, artist
Date
[1827]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Rivers - Schuylkill [(1)5750.F.73c; (2)5750.F.21a]
